Can you believe in some countries people are forced to protest in behalf of the "government"?

Question

This event recently took place in Burma where the military "government" is ruling without any moral compunction.

"Thousands at a government-staged mass rally in Yangon shouted slogans against Western powers and the foreign media, whom the military regime accuses of fomenting recent pro-democracy protests.

"Down with BBC! Down with VOA! Down with Radio Free America!" the crowds chanted at the rally, held amid growing international pressure on the junta to negotiate with the opposition. Many in the crowd were offered cash to attend, local officials said.

People bused in from other parts of the city gathered at a sports ground for the rally, which officials said 120,000 attended.

Local officials said on condition of anonymity that they had been ordered by the government to round up delegations from various parts of the city to attend."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071013/ap_on_re_as/myanmar

Answer 1

This is true. And sometimes they are paid with food, clothing or shelter. A wild animal on a feeding frenzy is less cruel than these barbarians. The humility of mankind must come from his inhumanity to his own kind.

Answer 2

It's good evidence of how unhealthy their rule is, how sad for them that they feel they must try to make it look as though people support them.

Strange that they're protesting against the west, does that mean they're blaming the west for giving the monks the idea that they want to be free from fear and political suppression? Although it also means that they fear our democratic ideas, that's great that they're so powerful.

What do you think of this taking place, you don't say in your question.

Answer 3

Welcome to the real world.

What you thought everyone loved military dictators, Nazislamic Fascist and communist leaders

Like the paid Anti-America protesters we always see on the news

Answer 4

Sure.  It happens in Iran, happened under Saddam in Iraq, happens in N. Korea and many other countries.